View full sizeTim Farrell/The Star-LedgerTwo lottery tickets — each worth $217,000 — were sold in Morris and Somerset counties and drawn Thursday.

Two lucky lotto tickets each worth $217,909 were sold by liquor stores in Morris and Somerset counties.

But neither business has heard from its winner.

"Too bad it wasn't you or me," Bill Graham said.

Graham
is a cashier at Green Hills Liquors on Parsippany Road in Parsippany.
He said its owner would love to meet the fortunate player. Same went for
Srinivan Reddy, an employee at Star Discount Liqours in North
Plainfield, which sold the other golden ticket.

"It's very fun," Reddy said. "But we want to see the person. Nobody has come here."

The
winning Jersey Cash 5 tickets were drawn Thursday. The winning number
were 04, 13, 17, 29 and 38, according to a release from the state.

New
Jersey Lottery Executive Director Carole Hedinger said 5,729 other
players won a combined $136,138 in the Thursday drawing. For picking
four correct numbers, 176 players won $458 each while choosing three
numbers right won 5,553 players $10 each.

Each store also got $750 for selling the winning ticket.

"It
feels good that it was us, that one of our customers won," Graham said.
"We don't know who it was. But it feels good that we sold the winning
ticket."